Craig Childs’ House of
Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest is an exceptional
book, handling the history of the so-called Anasazi people. Childs truly knows the material culture of this people, and has been to
the ruins and sites. He has a vivid and strong use of language in conjuring up such places as Mesa
Verde and isolated kivas in canyons in northern Mexico.
We get the sense in reading this book the Childs is our
guide, and is guiding us well. He is not afraid to introduce us to him as an author, explorer, and man. The next
best thing to reading this work is going out to the desert ourselves.
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